“I speak. You do not speak. Your job is to just sit there and look innocent.”

Richard Tiffany Gere - Martin Vail

“- Leslie Crosbie: You won't have to show Bob the letter, will you?
- Howard Joyce: I'll do everything possible to prevent him from seeing it. He'll be an important witness and he should be as firmly convinced of your innocence as he is now.”

Bette Davis - Leslie Crosbie
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

- Michael "Mike" Ward: What if she's right - he didn't do it, and they give him the chair?
- Martin: Suppose they do? What difference does it make? There's too many people in the world anyway.
John McGuire - Michael "Mike" Ward
Cliff Clark - Martin

“It's also my pleasure to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates, just because they haven't had anybody to look after their interests.”
Orson Welles - Kane

“I don't quite know how to say it. That hot July afternoon, it was like kissing fresh snow. I could feel her hand trembling on my shoulder. From the church behind us, came the breathe of innocence.”
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu